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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
REMARKABLE BOOMS.

From the Sioux City Journal.
The remarkable booms reported in
numerous cities and towns of Kansas
appear less mysterious in the light of the
statement that within three years over
$4,000 farms have been opened up.
Whether the number of new farms in
Kansas has been correctly ascertained
or not, the statement is the real ex-
PLANTATION of the unprecedented activity
in real estate transactions in Kansas,
both as regards in city and country prop
erty. And what is true of Kansas in
this respect is also true of the north
west The Transformation involved in
the settlement of Nebraska and Dakota,
and the regions beyond, within the past
few years are enormous, and the won
derful growth of the cities and towns in
the northwest is only one detail of these
transformations. Over and above all
this, SO far as real estate investments
is concerned, is the fact, rapidly becom-
ing realized, that the area of available
free land is being narrowed to COM
paratively small limits. The prodigious
movement of settlement westward has
at last reached stage when simple
calcuation shows that assuming an equal
movement in the future. only few
short years will intervene till the last
acre of free and cheap land in the west
will have been occupied. This fact is
being understood now better than ever
before, and by no one so well as by east
ern inventors. To them, too, there is
the added inducement to invest on &C
count of the exceedingly slender returns
of liquidated capital, low interest on
eastern loans and small dividends from
the ordinary stocks, etc. Investment
in western lands therefore, as a rule
has none of the elements of speculation.
1t is certainty by easy methods Of |
calculation, from the rate
Of settlement and the remaining area of |
unoccupied and desirable western lands. |
A vast stream Of eastern capital thus
is flowing in parallel lines with eastern |
and the west and the north
vest are the theaters in which there
Two fruitful streams meet and mingle.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
CIV e ST r. A N GE RS
CHI A CE.

There is desire among some people to
''hOld'' their property for the advance.
An exchange in real estate increases its
value. But on the point of letting the
strangers in the Meade Center Republican
correctly says;
A gentleman said to us few days ago,
why, just think of it, there's piece of
property sold less than six months ago
for $500 and was sold yesterday for g.
600. Now, see what would have made
had held il" He was mistaken. Had
he not then sold it is probable the party
to whom he sold would have invested
elsewhere, and might have induced others
to do likewise. Had others all done so
our city would still be small hamlet,
our Beautiful residence lots unoccupied
and yet held as farms adjoining the little
town of Meade Center. If ithad not been
sold other property adjoining would not
have increased in value.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
WHY WE NEED
More Railroads..


The west needs more railroads as will
be inferred by the conditions of ship
ments in the west. A Santa Fe telegram
to the Globe Democrat. April 81, says:
The rush of business on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe road just at present
is something astonishing. The carrying
capacity of the road is unable to handle
it. The strain affects passenger as well
as freight business. A local society day
or two ago applied for single passenger
coach to go on an excursion to Glorietta
Mountain and Pecos Valley, but tel
egram from headquarters states that it
can't be spared, and the excursion will
have to take the run of a regular train.
The extra local train put on the main
line last month is already overtaXed, and
a second extra goes on next month. The
regular freight trains are run in three sec
tions. That the boom in the southwest
is largely responsible for this state of af-
fairs is clearly indicated by the fact that
today there are 5000 loaded cars side
tracked between LaJunta and the Allan
tic and Pacific Junction, which the com
pany is unable to crowd through to their
destination. The'east bound business is
quite as heavy. The Santa Fe company
has given an order for 5000 new freight
cars, and 40 engines, in hopes that their
early completion will help them out of
the dilemma. This activity has compel
led the company, not only to overwork
its employees, but to put crews comprising
hundreds of new men on, and hence it is
that SO many disasters have occurred on
the New Mexico line within the past two
months. This is also the cause of the de-
lay and irregularity that effects the mail
service throughout the territory All the
principal towns are making loud COM
plants about the lattermatter, but Supts.
Dyer and Sands are employing new men
daily, and are doing every possible thing
they can to handle the business and at the
same time keep. the mail and passenger
train service up to schedule standard.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
THE MAN OF DESTINY
PREDICTS FOR KANSAS
Millions Of Population and Wealth.

James G. Blaine in a speech, lately de
livered, said of Kansas:
The time will come, and it will be with
in the memory of some who do me the
honor to listen to me now, when Kansas
will have 100000 of people, and you
will export more largely when you have
8, 900, 900 to feed from your soil than you
do to-day, for you have only begun to
scratch your broad domain as yet. !
know of you and about you, and l have
to say that from the beginning of the set
Element of all the states of the United
States there is none since the days of col
onial adventure that has about it the ro-
nance of history as has the state of Kan
sas. The history is the history of the de-
Tense of free labor and free soil
The Ghrden City Sentinel comments on
the Maine Statesman predictions as fol-
lows:
Whatever else may be said of Mr..
Blaine it will be conceded on all hands
that he is shrewd and accurate observer
of passing events. He has not failed to
take note of the tremendously rapid
growth of Kansas and of the causes
which have led to it, and will continue to
operate in the same way Mr. Blaine is
right when he says we have only begun
to scratch the surface of our domain as
yet, but we have scratched it to pretty
good purpose as is shown by the fact that
we have raised nearly two hundred mil
lion bushels of wheat and fifty million
bushels of corn in one single year, besides
an enormous amount of other crops. But
that is only drop in the bucket to what
it will soon do And as for his predic-
ton that we will have five million of peo-
pie in the lifetime of men now living, we
regard it as far inside the mark
Men who are considered old, or at any
rate past middle age will see that many
and more. Two millions and half will
probably be our showing in 1890, and we
ian easily double that in twenty years, if
not sooner.
Thus far Kansas has gone far beyond
he predictions of her most sanguine |
friends, and Kansas is like young tree
hat grows slowly till it gets fairly rooted
n the soil.
She is now fairly started in her onward
career and will grow faster from this on.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
From the Fowler Graphic.
BROOM CORN.
Its Adapatbility to the Soil and
Climate of Southwest
ern Kansas.
AN OLD Settler AIRS HIS OPINION IN
REaARD.To 1T.

l was much pleased with the lette
from e. E. Wellington on the subjec
of broom corn, also with your comment
upon it, and as..you seemed to want tn
subject agitated will give you few
thoughts from my observation and ex
perience. I, andTmy family came t.
Meade county in March, 1879. Th'
following spring. broke Is acres Of
sod and planted it in potatoes, onions
Indian corn, cane and broom corn
Everything was an:entire.failure except
the two latter.
In the summer of 1880, which was q
very dry one, Mr.. Sourbeer, Of Spring
Lake, and Mr.. Rockwell, of Pearlette,
each raised as fine crops Of broom corn
as can beTraised; anywhere. In that
year also Indian corn as we'll as most
other crops was an entire failure. Later
on I believe in the year 1884, Mr..
Seibenthaller, ofNBelle Meade raised
an excellent field of broom corn. In
each of the cases the corn had to be
freighted to market at Larned and was
a paying crop under such adverse cir
cumstances. / have never known of a
crop failing in Meade county.
Besides being sure crop it is one of
the best paying crops that the farmer
can raise. As you say it is never worth
less than $50 a ton, and is now worth
500. As good evidence that it Is
profitable to raise, will mention that
tits extensively grown in Saline county,
one of the best corn-growiDg counties
in Kansas, and if it pays there it surely
will in Meade county.
The fact, however, 10 that few far
mers can not raise enough to establish
a market, but if 100 farmers would
grow from 10 to IS acres each, one
would grow up here At home. Buyers
would come to US and pay Us the high
est market price. As to . broom fac
tory I know of what 1 speak, when I
say that there will be one in Fowler in
the near future. But I hope there will
be enough corn raised this year to keep
the factory running al NEXT year, and
still be large surplus to ship out of
the county.
We live in the best state in the
United States; and one Of the best
counties in the state, 'but We must use
it for what it is adapted. ! am satisfied
that Indian corn will do well here. II
know that broom corn will.
I suggest that it would be good
plan to form an association, its object
70 get information on the subject,
furnish seed, &c. Respectfully,
8. E. AYREs.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
THE DkkVER, MEMPHIS &
ATLANTIC RAILROAD
WILL REACH DODGE CITY
BEFORE THE AGREED TIME.

Our railroad boom is about to realize its
fruits. We have insisted that Dodge
City would soon enjoy the sight of an
other railroad. These expectations are
about to be realized, and the consumation
of the railroad projects are to be made
before Ahe appointed time. Gould and
his system are working like beavers
traversing this wide domain in various
ways on numerous lines The Dodge
City system" apart of the grand system
Of Gould tactics, is soon to be completed,
as will be seen be reference to the letter
from President J. J. Burns to our enter
prising citizen, Morris Collar. Gould is
behind the d. M & Ait is a part of his
great System and no wonder Gould
has SO much System. because he is a
man of method-a man of system is man
of method and can be depended on finish
ing his course. 1t may be considered
that method and system are synonymous
terms, but in this particular instance they
are not Gould controls his system by
methods. In natural arrangements, a
distinction is sometimes made between
method and system. System is an ar
rangement bounded throughout all its
parts, on some one principle. Method is
an ar1an cement less fixed and determi
nate, and founded on more general rela-
tons But we are not discussing the
meaning of words, we are COMMUNICATING
Gould upon his method of getting his
system working upon the patience of the
people of Dodge City and Ford county,
and thus rendering a compatibility of in
terests and harmony of feelings. Gould
keeps up his railroad system, and his au-
tomatical system by method. A writer
says.of him. .ah is q strong advocate of
method. The:day' s'work is laid out in
the morning and almost before the train
starts,in the morning he has settled how
many stops can be made during the day,
and where the night can be spent.
Now, when a man of method under
takes to build a, railroad with a system,
he will get there before the appointed
time Burnes is one of Goulds lieuten-
ants, and he is working the Gould system
with the best known methods. Morris
Collar. J. j.. Burns and Jay Gould, are
each known in their spheres as men with
systems, conducted Oh well known meth
DDS. Morris Collar method is to get the
Gould system running into Dodge City in
time for the Fourth of July celebration,
and if he can do it. it will be done with
Goulds help and Burns push. Here is
the letter:
DENVER, MEMPHIS & ATLANTIC r. Y.
PRESIDENTS OFFICE.
WINFIELD, kansas. APRIL21, 1887.
NJ. COLLAR ESQ.
'-- DODGE CITY, KANSAS.
DEAR SIR: Your letter at hand and
noted. Inreply will say, don't get scared
about the D. NJ & A. so easily. We are
coming right along, and will be there on
time, and long before any other road can
get near you have no doubt our line
will be located within few months
Yours truly,
j. BURNS.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
SANTA FE r. r. OFFICERS.

j. F. Goddard is promoted to the posi-
ton of general manager, the authority of
which Office will extend over the Southern
Kansas railway, as well as over the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad and
branches. The appointment to take ef
feet May 1.
w. F. White is promoted to the posi-
ton of traffic manager of this railroad
and branches, and also of the Southern
Kansas railway, the appointment taking
effect as of this date.
Mr. Goddard also becomes general man
ager of the California Southern, the At
lantic and Pacific, and the Chicago, Kan
sas & Western.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05

The same old story. This time it is
. Texas farmers wife, but the method
and the results are the same children
locked in the house calls on
= nsighbor- house burned and children
destroyed. People learn, but it is from
bitter experience, not from obserya-
ton or example. Mothers who read
the account, and have read scores Of
others like it, viii continue to fasten
the little ones up and 80 abroad just
the same, till the dreadful fatality
occurs and brings them 70 . realizing
sense Of their folly.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
CROPS AND STOCK.

The Secretary of the State Board Of
Agriculture, in his report for the. quarter
ending March 81, says the outlook for the
winter wheat crop is now good-much
better than for 1885 OF 1885 at this date.
The area planted, however, is not as large
as that of 1886. The area of rye sown is
about the same as last wear.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
THE VERDICT UNANIMOUS.

W. D. Suit, Druggist, Buppus, Ind, testiies: Il
can recommend Electric Bitters the very best
remedy. Every bottle sold has given relief in ev-
cry case. One man took six bottles, and was cur
ed Of rheumatism Of 10 years standing Abra-
ham Hare, druggist, Bellvile, Ohio, affrms: 1.-THE
best selling medicine have ever handled in my
20 years. experience, is Electric Bitters." Thous-
ands Of others have added their testimony, that
the verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters do
cure all diseases of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood
Only half dollar a bottle at City Drug Store
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
OF PROHI-
BITION,

The Prohibitionists have at last won q
big victory in Leavenworth. For years
the saloon element has fought against the
inevitable, but it came last week. Frank
French was convicted by jury of vio-
lation of the prohibitory law, and Fred
Herman, Christ Earhart, J. H. Benradt
and Charles Geiler pleaded guilty to the
same charge. Each will be fined 500,
and be imprisoned thirty DAYS. There
are some thirty more similar cases pend
ing before the district court, and it is
said all will be convicted or plead guilty.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
Our Weakness.

The weakness of republican form
of government is the shiftless citizen.
1t makes no difference whether this
shiftlessness comes from ignorance,
laziness, or consunmate depravity, its
effect is the same. No man is fit to
be citizen of a republic who is not
possessed of substantial character and
has not substantial interest in the
welfare of the community. The great
floating elements of society, the home
less thousands, the lazy thousands, and
the vicious thousands are alarming ele-
ments of the body polite. In our cities
there are literally thousands who have
not one particle OF interest in the COM
mon prosperity. They are not in any
true sense citizens. They are simply
located because they happened to have
struck the town. They pay no taxes,
live from hand to mouth, have not even
families to bind to their place of habita-
ton, and they are wholly unidentified
with any interest of society. 1t makes
no difference to snch classes what hap
pens so long as they can get cheap
bed to sleep in, enough Of something to
eat, and all the rum they want. Pub.
lie officials may steal the city or town
bankrupt, but it is a matter of no con-
Germ to such people. None of their mon
ey is stolen. Business houses may 70
down in the midst of finantial storms, but
these people are not worried. Vice
may abound, but that is just as salts
factory to them as if virtue abounded.
Property may be destroyed by bombs,
but they have no property to suffer and
so it makes no difference to them. The
church and the school house are of in
significant import in their estimation.
If worst comes to worst, if things get
too hot for their worthless carcasses,
they can pack their wardrobe into
pocket handkerchief, and leave for 9TH
er parts. To eliminate these elements
from our citizenship would seem to be
" a consumation devoutly to be wish
ed" 1t is mockery of common sense
to permit people of this description to
have voice in the assessment of taxes
and the dispensing Of the public mon
eys. 1t is rank injustice to permit one
of these self made paupers, man with
out character and ignorant as horse, to
stand at the ballot-box upon an equality
with the citizen whose very soul is bur-
dened with the great desire to advance
the real interests of society, to promote
education and morality, and to protect
the interests of his family. What shall
we do with then? Dlsfrancbise them7
We cannot do it. 1t would be an in
blessing to this republic and
70 posterity If we could. But the DEM
lgogue knows what potent cry univer.
'al suffrage is. In this country We are
determined to be free if We ruin our.
'elves in being so. Except IN those
tates where property or educational
of suffrage exists there is no
prospect of ever limiting suffrage. We
must therefore depend upon two things
or relief: first, education; and second,
rigid enforcement: o. riged laws against
ice and vagrancy -Western-Rural.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
EXCITEMENT In TEXAS.

Great excitement has been caused in the vicinity
Of Paris, Tex, by the remarkable recovery of Mr.
]. E. Corley, who was go helpless he could not
turn in bed or raise bis head; everybody said he
was dying Of Consumption. A trial bottle of DIR.
Kings New Discovery was sent him. Finding re-
lief, he bought large bottle and a box of DIR.
Kings New Life Pills; by the time he had taken
two boxes Of Pills and two bottles of the Discovery
he was well and had gained in flesh thrty-six
pounds.
Trial Bottles Of this Great Discovery for Con-
sumption free at City Drug Store.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05

Most of the farmers are about through
planting corn and we are proud to inform
your many readers that very large av-
erage has been planted in the Pawnee
valley and when the summer is past and
the harvest is here the honest toiler will
reap rich regard in crops of yellow corn.
Trees, both fruit and forest, have been
abundantly planted upon nearly every
quarter section of land in this country
this spring. Our farmers are all vide
awake, thrifty and energetic and they
are each and every one vieing with each
other in seeing who will raise the largest
crops, have the finest orchards, hedges
groves and grandest country mansions
Several are making arrangements to erect
large and commodious stone dwellings
this coming summer and faA-Garfield
county correspondence in Finney County
Democrat. T-5
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05

A carefully prepared return shows
that over 30, 900 farms have been OPEN
ed up in Kansas during the last three
years. This explains much that is mys-
ferrous about the boom in Kansas towns,
and is record of growth and prosperity
OF which any state or country in the
world might well be proud. Globe
Democrat.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
AN ADVERTISING DODGE.

The latest Kansas real estate notion is
to send of dispatches saying: The far
mere are fearing too much rain."-Wash-
ington Republican.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05

A Horton special to the Kansas City
Times gives an account of serious wreck
that occurred on Tuesday mile and a
half northwest of Horton. The train
bore the Kansas Board of Railroad A.
SCISSORS, all of whom were more or less in
jured, but none fatally. Secretary of
State Allen and Lieut.. Gov. Riddle re-
ceived injuries to their lower limbs, and
had to be carried from the ground. State
Auditor Mccarthy was bruised about the
head, but not badly hurt. Judge levers,
of the Iowa Supreme Court, and Col
Fisher, General Manager of the c. K. &
n, were also somewhat injured, and N.
A. Low, President of the road, received
some bruises. What caused the accident
does not appear, but the car was thrown
an embankment forty feet high, and the
wonder Is that the whole party we're not
killed outright.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05

. An eastern man is raising four legged
breed of turkeys for thanksgiving din
ners. What is wanted is breed of men
who will not be hogs at those same peni-
tential feaSts
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05

Kansas gets in some shape or other a
good deal of free advertising. The
woman suffrage movement has attracted
widespread attention, and the election re-
turns have been published in all the east
ern papers. Kansas feels like Barnum in
regard to advertising-we don't care what
people say of us, only so they say some
thing. ~ z,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05

The interstate commerce law enables
our grain buyers to ship their grain west,
and get the benefit of that market 1t
makes corn nearly as high here as in
Chicago.-Sterling Bulletin
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05

The wool clip of Kansas is more than
double the average of the six New Eng
land states, which have 794 WOODEN mill
an average Of 142 mills to the state.
And yet there is not singlelasge WOOL
en- mill in Kansas:
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05

Some of the obituary articles in our
country exchanges are tear-starters. A
Hutchinson paper speaks of recent
corpse who was struck down by the
hand of providence, and not permitted to
finish putting in his spring crops" Such
sad occurrences come right home to all of
us.-Topeka Capital.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05
GOOD CROPS,

We have met with a good many Of our
farmer friends during the week and in
conversation with them about the pros
poets for good crops the coming season,
they one and all, are expecting a bountiful
yield. They are pushing their spring
work along with zeal and earnestness
scarcely equalled in any year in the past
We are glad to notice their unusually
high spirits, and hope their most sanguine
expectations will become reality-Fin-
ney Co. Democrat.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05

The Kansas City Times thus replies
to aquestion asking how many towns in
Kansas and their population: s'This
question can only be answered in the
census of 1890. Cities, towns, and vii
lagos in Kansas, are sprngipg mp at so
rapid a rate that it il impossible to keep
track Of them. One might IS yell try
to tell how many young pumpkins there
will be in > field of healthy vines in =
given week in . fruitful season, - to
keep up with the growth IN Kansas
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-05

Enterprising Dodge City men are ma
king an effort to secure the removal of
the Q. S. LAID Office feom Garden City
to that place, and with some show of sue
cess. 1t could be better accommodated at
Dodge and we see no good reason why
the change should not be made. We are
for Dodge City.-Fowler Graphic.